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The L4 mission concept (KASA) - providing and leading the dust science case.
The Lunar Gateway - providing the dust science case.
TOPICS and REFERENCES
Current Mission Involvement:
- L4 mission concept (KASA), launch 2035 [Posner et al., 2021, Cho et al., 2021]
- Lunar Gateway dust package (ESA, NASA, JAXA, CSA) [Wozniackiwicz 2021, Sterken et al., in prep.]
- Destiny+ science team (JAXA/DLR), launch 2028 [Simolka et al., 2024; Krüger et al., 2024]
Past Topics:
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DOLPHIN mission concept, Principal Investigator [Sterken et al., in prep.]
- Interstellar Probe study [Hunziker et al, in prep.; Brandt et al. 2023; Webinar on youtube]
- AstroLEAP Facility Definition Team (2024)
- Joint Europa Mission (JEM) proposal for the ESA M5 call for medium-class missions. The goal of this mission is to explore the habitability of the Jovian moon Europa in a joint ESA-NASA effort. [Blanc et al., 2020]
- S2D2 Proposal for ESA science themes for L-class missions: a mission concept consisting of two spacecraft to map the solar system in dust: one in-situ spacecraft for the dust flux and chemical composition in order to link the solar system dust and their parent bodies, and one infrared telescope out-of-the ecliptic plane for a birds-eye view on the solar system debris disk. PI: Ralf Srama, Univ. Stuttgart. (2013)
- SARIM [Srama et al., 2012], Interstellar Heliopause Probe , FOSSIL, LIMO, LEX, Uranus mission [Arridge, C.S. et al., 2014], Cross-Scale Mission Technology Reference Study ESA-ESTEC
More information and updates at astrodust.phys.ethz.ch
See also:
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A Multi-Purpose Heliophysics L4 Mission
Posner, A., et al.Space Weather, Volume 19, Issue 9, article id. e02777.
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A cosmic dust detection suite for the deep space Gateway.
Wozniakiewicz, P. J., et alAdvances in Space Research, Volume 68, Issue 1, p. 85-104.